ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,442,740, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to DEKA Products Ltd. Partneship (Manchester, N.H.).

"System and method for applying force to a device" was invented by Christopher C. Langenfeld (Nashua, N.H.), Dirk A. Van Der Merwe (Canterbury, N.H.), Grant A. Peret (Bedford, N.H.), John C. Anastasiou (New Boston, N.H.), Jonathan Parker (Henniker, N.H.) and Michael A. Baker (Manchester, N.H.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and method for applying force to at least one device at least one force actuator including a processor accessing at least one description of the at least one device, the processor creating command information based at...